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#	Text	Tune
d1	A cruel old King from a castle strong
d2	Down in a room all cozy and bright
d3	Everybody, everybody, everybody wake up
d4	Get into the fight for God and right
d5	Hark, the thrill approaching nigh
d6	I remember well a cottage
d7	Lonely at evening a mother is sitting waiting
d8	Mourn for the thousands slain
d9	No surrender, pass the word, For the ocnflict quickly gird
d10	O de Brewer's big hosses, comin' down de road
d11	O de sparklin' wine, Yas it look mighty fine
d12	O leave the banquet halls
d13	O mister brewer man, what you gwine to do
d14	O we hear this kind of argument each day upon the stree
d15	O what's all this commottion
d16	O where are you going my pretty maid
d17	O where tell me where is my wandering boy tonight
d18	Our cause is just and at the righteous bidding
d19	Pretty little maiden chide not fate
d20	Ranks arrayed, undismayed, not a heart of us afraid
d21	The walls of Jericho fell down
d22	There's a patient little woman here below
d23	There's an adder in the cup
d24	This nation's badly muddled up
d25	We ring the challenge out, all evil hosts defying
d26	We stand for right, we are in the fight
d27	When saloons are driven out of any town
d28	Workman [workmen] of God O lose not heart

[This hymnal is not yet complete - may be missing texts or tunes]

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